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Throat-slit body recovered
Pabna: Police recovered the throat-slit body of a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver from Ugrogarh village in Sadar upazila early yesterday, reports UNB.
The deceased was identified as Manirul Islam alias Batul, 22, son of Abdur Rahim Tukai, a resident of Kumulli village of the upazila. Quoting locals, police said Batul went out of his garage with the auto on Friday evening and did not return home.Locals noticed the body of Batul lying on a road in the area in the morning.
Later, police recovered the body and sent it to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Batul might have been killed by miscreants during their bid to snatch his auto-rickshaw in the dead of night, said officer-in-charge of Ataikula Police Station Abdur Razzak.
A case was filed in this connection.
33 arrested in Satkhira
SATHKHIRA: Police, in special drives from Friday night to this morning, arrested 33 persons from seven upazilas of the district, reports BSS.
Sources with the district police said they were picked up from different areas of the district.
The sources said, during the drives, Satkhira Sadar police arrested 10 persons, Kalaroa police eight, Tala police two, Kaliganj police three, Shyamnagar police three, Assasuni police five, Debhata police one and Patkelghata police one accused. Kalaroa police recovered 48 pieces of Yaba tablets form the upazila during the drives.
Several cases, including charges of subversive activities, are pending with different police stations against the arrested persons, the sources added.
The arrested were sent to jail this morning.
Agri-Technology fair begins
GAIBANDHA: A 5-day long Agri-Technology Fair-2017 is being held on the premises of Independence Square of the town here since Wednesday amid much enthusiasm, reports BSS.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has arranged the fair under the project of Nutrition and Food Security Ensuring through Integrated Agriculture Development in cooperation with district administration.
The main purpose of the fair is to familiar the farmers with the latest and modern agri-technologies innovated by the agri-scientists to ensure food security in the country, said deputy director of DAE AKM Ruhul Amin.
To inspire the farmers to boost production of crops, and vegetables through using the latest agro-technologies to get desired output against the yield is another objective of the fair, he also said.
A total of 30 stalls had been set up in the fair and all section of people particularly the farmers are visiting the fair and familiarizing the technologies being displayed for them enthusiastically.
